Federal government takes money/profits from USPS. Now that USPS is lagging, federal governments wants to cut it because it's a burden. No real money for product development, hiring leverage, or just to offset a downturn, because the government spent that. That's why they're in this position, not just technology taking the USPS's place. In fact technology should have allowed the USPS to run every day since it enables much higher efficiency, but that kind of research takes money, which requires the federal government not wasting profits away over the years.

Loans to USPS? Nothing compared to the money it made the government. Don't get down on the Postal Service. They were rock stars, even with the federal government (the most fiscally irresponsibly body of people in existence) leeching off them.

Cutting days is a joke. That's a large scale bureaucratic cost saving bandaid which is only going to drive people away, not a well thought out plan to deliver superior service at higher efficiency to the consumer.